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• Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

The differences in albumen photographs from vintage photographic studios were identified by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results inspired the concept of finding common features characteristic of a given photographic studio. The obtained measurement data (i.e., positions of vibrat...

Photographs on canvas that have been coloured by oil paint carry a range of historical, technological, and artistic values. The objects needed an immediate conservation treatment because of their poor conservation conditions. The conservation treatments were carried out during the master’s project at the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of A...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of photographic models' disinfection with ethylene oxide (EtO) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The models were made using POP (Printing Out Paper) methods: salted paper, albumin, collodion, gelatine on Whatman and Fabriano paper artificially infected with bacteria (Bacillus subtilis, Streptomy...

The volume presents materials from the first instalment of a series of conferences under the collective title "Hinc Omnia. Historical, Artistic and Special Collections in Libraries and Other Cultural Institutions". The bilingual (Polish-English) and trilingual (Polish-English-Russian) articles are devoted to the curation, preservation, and circulat...

Herbaria in a form of a codex, which have been made since 16th century, nowadays are a very interesting and heterogeneous group of objects. They were usually made by botanists as specific kind of a scientific documentaction used for a scientific research, for the comparitioning the plant speciments and for the teaching and learning purposes. Becous...